WARNING: Studio bosses are providing a new 'failsafe' system so that women can report abuse

Movie and TV studio bosses are planning to install new “failsafe” systems for women employees to report abuse without fear of any reprisals.

Board members at MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal are leading the move.

Others, including Disney, Sony, Warner Bros. and CBS are expected to follow suit.

It comes amid global outrage over Weinstein, who is facing criminal investigations by police in London and New York following shocking allegations by 33 women.

A senior production company executive who once worked alongside him said last night: “This must never be allowed to happen again.

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“It is disgraceful this still goes on, but the Weinstein case now appears to have finally opened the floodgates”

Senior production executive

“Weinstein used to boast to me and others of his many celebrity ‘conquests,’ but what I really recall most is the way he made humble office staff squirm by leering up their skirts, making lewd remarks and ‘accidentally’ brushing up against them.

“There’s a history in Hollywood of men like him – who would normally make most women’s skin crawl – attaining tremendous power then using it to intimidate their victims into submitting to their sexual demands.

“It is disgraceful this still goes on, but the Weinstein case now appears to have finally opened the floodgates for change at the very heart of the entertainment industry.”

The studios’ clean-up crusade was yesterday supported by other major Tinseltown workers and unions, including the powerful Writers Guild of America.

President Beau Willimon and executive director Lowell Peterson said in a statement: “Our responsibility is to make sure our members can do their work free from harassment and assault. When this inappropriate behaviour does take place, members should be fully supported by the union to make sure that proper action is taken.”

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – which hosts the annual Oscars ceremony – was yesterday holding emergency talks over Weinstein.

The Weinstein Company and Miramax studio, which it used to own, have won 81 awards. A spokesman described the sexual allegations against him as “repugnant”.

Bafta, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, has already suspended Weinstein’s membership.

Harvey Weinstein's leading ladies

Harvey Weinstein best known for films like Shakespeare in Love and Pulp fiction with his most famous leading ladies.

And European film festival bosses in Cannes, Berlin and Venice have all condemned him.

The executive who used to work with Weinstein said yesterday: “The one decent thing that has come out of this scandal is a genuine desire for change across our entire industry.

“Harvey used to target women in advance – from household name stars to behind-the-scenes personnel – at the numerous film festivals he travelled to in his private jet. He would brag before he even set off about who he planned to get between the sheets.

“With most men, you’d have dismissed his words as pure fantasy but I don’t think he ever understood the meaning of the word ‘No’, either in day-to-day office business or when it came to women he wanted to bed.”

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Weinstein – whose English wife Georgina Chapman has left him – is reportedly undergoing treatment at The Meadows, a £31,600-a-month private sex addiction clinic in Arizona.

He flew there following a week of revelations.

They included allegations by four women – including actress Rose McGowan – that he raped them.

Claims of sexual assault and harassment were made by 29 other top actresses, including Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow.